{"id":11750,"date":"2014-12-17T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11750"},"modified":"2014-12-17T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T07:24:06","slug":"how-we-restored-harvards-rothko-murals-without-touching-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/12\/17\/how-we-restored-harvards-rothko-murals-without-touching-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How we restored Harvard\u2019s Rothko murals \u2013 without touching them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 668px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/files\/67167\/width668\/image-20141214-6048-1q8wy9h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior conservation scientist Narayan Khandekar demonstrates how a perfectly aligned compensation image is projected onto Rothko\u2019s faded murals to restore them to their original colors. Artwork: \u00a9 2014 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Peter Vanderwarker, \u00a9 President and Fellows of Harvard College<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis headline certainly grabbed my attention. \u00a0Read the account of\u00a0Narayan Khandekar,\u00a0Senior Conservation Scientist at Harvard University, who worked on the restoration of Harvard&#8217;s Rothko murals using lighting to recreate the original appearance. \u00a0His description of the project in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-we-restored-harvards-rothko-murals-without-touching-them-35245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a>, December 16, 2014 \u00a0seems like it could be part of a future wave of non-invasive &#8220;treatment&#8221;. \u00a0 But does it count as treatment?<br \/>\nLearn more from the WGBH TV segment that covered the project:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/programs\/Open-Studio-With-Jared-Bowen-2162\/episodes\/A-Conversation-with-Keith-Lockhart-57976\">http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/programs\/Open-Studio-With-Jared-Bowen-2162\/episodes\/A-Conversation-with-Keith-Lockhart-57976<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This headline certainly grabbed my attention. \u00a0Read the account of\u00a0Narayan Khandekar,\u00a0Senior Conservation Scientist at Harvard University, who worked on the restoration of Harvard&#8217;s Rothko murals using lighting to recreate the original appearance. \u00a0His description of the project in The Conversation, December 16, 2014 \u00a0seems like it could be part of a future wave of non-invasive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/12\/17\/how-we-restored-harvards-rothko-murals-without-touching-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How we restored Harvard\u2019s Rothko murals \u2013 without touching them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}